EMNLP 2021finding125 citations

TURINGBENCH: A Benchmark Environment for Turing Test in the Age of Neural Text Generation

Adaku Uchendu, Zeyu Ma, Thai Le, Rui Zhang, Dongwon Lee

Abstract

Recent progress in generative language models has enabled machines to generate astonishingly realistic texts. While there are many legitimate applications of such models, there is also a rising need to distinguish machine-generated texts from human-written ones (e.g., fake news detection). However, to our best knowledge, there is currently no benchmark environment with datasets and tasks to systematically study the so-called ”Turing Test” problem for neural text generation methods. In this work, we present the TURINGBENCH benchmark environment, which is comprised of (1) a dataset with 200K human- or machine-generated samples across 20 labels Human, GPT-1, GPT-2_small, GPT-2_medium, GPT-2_large,GPT-2_xl, GPT-2_PyTorch, GPT-3, GROVER_base, GROVER_large, GROVER_mega, CTRL, XLM, XLNET_base, XLNET_large, FAIR_wmt19, FAIR_wmt20, TRANSFORMER_XL, PPLM_distil, PPLM_gpt2, (2) two benchmark tasks–i.e., Turing Test (TT) and Authorship Attribution (AA), and (3) a website with leaderboards. Our preliminary experimental results using TURINGBENCH show that GPT-3 and FAIR_wmt20 are the current winners, among all language models tested, in generating the most human-like indistinguishable texts with the lowest F1 score by five state-of-the-art TT detection models. The TURINGBENCH is available at: https://turingbench.ist.psu.edu/

BibTeX
@inproceedings{uchendu-etal-2021-turingbench-benchmark,
    title = "{TURINGBENCH}: A Benchmark Environment for {T}uring Test in the Age of Neural Text Generation",
    author = "Uchendu, Adaku  and
      Ma, Zeyu  and
      Le, Thai  and
      Zhang, Rui  and
      Lee, Dongwon",
    editor = "Moens, Marie-Francine  and
      Huang, Xuanjing  and
      Specia, Lucia  and
      Yih, Scott Wen-tau",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021",
    month = nov,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Punta Cana, Dominican Republic",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-emnlp.172/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.findings-emnlp.172",
    pages = "2001--2016"
}
TURINGBENCH: A Benchmark Environment for Turing Test in the Age of Neural Text Generation · EMNLP 2021